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- From: odonovan@inmos.co.uk (Brian O'Donovan)
- Subject: Re: SENDing an entire MAIL FOLDER ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.092209.21671@titan.inmos.co.uk>
- Sender: news@titan.inmos.co.uk
- Reply-To: odonovan@inmos.co.uk (Brian O'Donovan)
- Organization: INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK.
- References: <01GTXLEOVOIQ9GVN23@SNYBUFVA.BITNET> <1k2kohINNs62@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 09:22:09 GMT
- Lines: 79
-
- In article <1k2kohINNs62@gap.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
- >In article <01GTXLEOVOIQ9GVN23@SNYBUFVA.BITNET>, TARKA10@SNYBUFVA.BITNET (Mark Tarka) writes:
- >>I CHECKED:
- >>On-line help
- >>On-line documentation
- >>Local comp center staff
- >>
- >>Can I send all 30 messages in a single mail folder to a user at
- >>another node, and if so, how?
- >>
-
- Try this
-
- Create a new directory (say [.MAIL_TO_GO]) then do
- $MAIL
- SELECT folder
- COPY/ALL newfolder [.MAIL_TO_GO]file
- (mail will tell you that [.MAIL_TO_GO]file does not exist and ask
- you if you wish to create it. Tell it Y.)
- EXIT
-
- [.MAIL_TO_GO] will now contain file.MAI and possibly a load of
- MAIL$<mumble>.MAI files. If you were to do a SET FILE [.mail_to_go]file
- from within mail, and a DIR/FOL you would see the folder `newfolder'.
- Now you need to send the whole package of mail files somewhere.
-
- Create a saveset of all the files in [.MAIL_TO_GO] and send the
- saveset by mail. ... but it's not as simple as that ...
-
- A saveset cannot be mailed as-is (32256 byte record too long...) so ...
-
- compress the saveset using Zip. It has a mode which preserves VMS file
- attributes:
-
- ZIP "-V" file.zip file.sav
-
- uuencode the zip file
-
- uuencode file.zip file_zip.uue
-
- now MAIL the file.uue file. If it is enormous youmay want to split
- it into chumnks (e.g. with VMS_SHARE).
-
- at the other end it will
- need to be reassembled, uudecoded, unzipped and then all the mail files
- extracted.
-
- Once the mail files have been extracted e.g. into a [.MAIL_TO_GO] directory
- at the receiving end; the recipient can go into mail and say
- SET FILE [.MAIL_TO_GO]file
- SELECT folder
- and see all the messages
-
- If they then want to move the messages to a folder and/or file within their
- usual mail directory they can do that. Anyway, the messages should still
- look the same as when you recieved them.
-
- I hope this is of some help. Please excudse (!) the typos.
-
- Cheers,
-
- 'o-Dzin
-
- PS: I've just thought, all this assumes that the recipient is a VMS
- system. If that's not the case than I've no idea...
-
- PPS: If you don't have Zip, UUencode and Vms_Share I can point you
- in the general direction of Hunter Goatley, who has such things on
- his file server.
-
- PPPS: I've not done this, at least not until now. I've tested it
- and it works. You never know, though, there might be a simpler
- method...
-
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